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| Quote for category - reason |
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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
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Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held.
Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin.
Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Time makes more converts than reason.
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
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He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the
servant and has forgotten the gift.
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your
territory.
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I'll not listen to reason . . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
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Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that
knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.
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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
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The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of
their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field,
but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science); for it
neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history
and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and
disgested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as
has never been made), much may be hoped.
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Logicians have but ill defined
As rational the human mind.
Logic, they say, belongs to man,
But let them prove it if they can.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.
Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased
to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
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